MISS LIBERTY REVIEWS BITTER HARVEST, a love story set during Stalin’s forced famine of Ukraine.

The film is remarkable for its accurate portrayal of the blunt truth – no major narrative film of which I am aware has ever told this story (there have, however, been several documentaries). Ukrainian farmers did indeed resist Soviet collectivization, often heroically, but they were a largely unarmed population facing armed troops, with predictable results.

The DVD is available for rent at Netflix or purchase on Amazon, but there doesn’t seem to be a Blu-Ray release yet.